Ye Jiayu refused to accept the conviction and applied to the High Court for leave to appeal.
Ye Jiayu, who once played for the Hong Kong Super League team and is now a goalkeeper for Group C club Junda, drove a private car to pick up a 17-year-old girl he had just met in Tai Tam in 2021 and was being suspect of raping her in the car. Ye was later charged with one count of rape. He pleaded not guilty and was tried by the High Court. He refused to accept the conviction and applied to the High Court for leave to appeal and to be released on bail during the appeal. The judge issued a verdict today (9th), believing that Ye Jiayu’s grounds of appeal were not reasonably arguable, and refused to grant leave to appeal and refused to grant him bail.
Ye Jiayu, a 26-year-old appeal license applicant, is a soccer player. The charge alleges that he raped the then 17-year-old female victim X in Tai Tam on March 11, 2021. According to the confession of X, aged 19, during the interrogation, five days before the incident, while chatting and relaxing with friends at Siu Sai Wan beach, met the applicant who was fishing there. On the night of the incident, the applicant invited her to dinner and drove her to Tai On House in Sai Wan Ho to buy food. X thought he was going to nearby Siu Sai Wan beach, but the applicant drove to Tai Tam As a result, he was raped by the applicant in the car and his first night was taken from him. Later, the applicant asked X to perform oral sex on him.
In September last year, the jury found the applicant guilty of rape The judge referred to X’s trauma report and said the victim suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and needed to receive psychological treatment in prison. In October of the same year, the applicant applied to the High Court for leave to appeal, pointing out that the trial judge should have asked the jury to consider that the applicant might have believed that X having consented to sexual intercourse with him. However, the High Court judge pointed out that the applicant had not given evidence and that the verdict depended on whether the jury believed the victim’s confession Furthermore, it was not the applicant’s defense that he mistakenly believed that X have consented to sexual intercourse, but that both have consented. without having intercourse. Taking all the factors into consideration, the court refused the right to appeal and refused to grant him bail.
Case number: CACC 185/2023
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